It is hard to guess what a Oecomys roberti weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Oecomys roberti (Oecomys roberti) on average weights 73 grams (0.16 lbs).
The Oecomys roberti is from the family Muridae (genus: Oecomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.51 meter (5′ 0″).
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
Oecomys roberti, also known as Robert’s oecomys or Robert’s arboreal rice rat, is a rodent species from South America in the genus Oecomys. It has a broad distribution in the Amazon biome, being found in Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Oecomys roberti
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Mexican vole with a weight of 34 grams
- Neacomys guianae with a weight of 15 grams
- Pale gerbil with a weight of 52 grams
- Rossel Island melomys with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mira climbing rat with a weight of 184 grams
- Morgan’s gerbil mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- African smoky mouse with a weight of 17 grams
- Peters’s striped mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Cozumel harvest mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Thomas’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Oecomys roberti
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oecomys roberti:
- Web-footed tenrec bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Boehm’s bush squirrel bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Oreoryzomys bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Argentine hocicudo bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Dark-tailed tree rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Leschenault’s rousette bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Oecomys cleberi bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Western rock elephant shrew bringing 65 grams to the scale
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Dusky antechinus bringing 62 grams to the scale